The court heard more details today (Tuesday, November 27) about the time the defendant allegedly offered Ms Cavanagh, who separated from her husband a year earlier, money to sleep with him.

Prosecutor Alexandra Healy told the jury that on May 15, four days before Cavanagh allegedly strangled Ms Cavanagh, he messaged her via What's App saying: "You have broken, shattered and ripped me to shreads. The list goes on.

"You have stripped for men online, to total strangers, for peanuts. This is not a joke and I am dead serious."

The court heard that Cavanagh added: "I want to have you one last final time ... this is all I think about."

"Please, Sophie, please do this for me one last time. You know what I have £100 here spare and I won't see it as I'm using it to pay to sleep with you," he allegedly went on to say.

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"I will talk to you tomorrow," replied Ms Cavanagh, the court was told.

The next day, more text messages were exchanged between the two, Ms Healy told the court, including the message: "I just need some closure, OK and that would have done it.

Sophie Cavanagh was originally from Selsdon before moving to Bromley

"I know that seems f***** up but maybe it takes something f***** up to get closure."

Ms Healy went on to read out text messages which the jury was told had been sent between the defendant and Ms Cavanagh in the days leading up to her death.

The last phone call Ms Cavanagh ever made

The phone records put to the court, Ms Healy said, were those from Cavanagh's phone, which was found in Ms Cavanagh's flat, a Sky landline, also in the flat, and Ms Cavanagh's phone which was found by police in the kitchen bin.

The jury were told last week it appeared someone had tried to chop the phone up with a pair of scissors.

The court heard how, on May 14, the defendant and Ms Cavanagh exchanged messages throughout the day, which included the pair "bickering" over a set of keys. The next day, the defendant and Ms Cavanagh had a number of other minor arguments, the jury was told.

Sophie Cavanagh was found dead in her flat

The court heard Cavanagh sent his wife a text at 9pm on May 15 saying he "made some extra money today", before adding "there is £100 with your name on it".

The defendant then went to a pub, the jury was told, before texting Ms Cavanagh he had left because he was "livid". The text messages offering Ms Cavanagh money to sleep with him allegedly then followed.

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On May 16, the defendant went to play bingo with two of his children, but was arguing with Ms Cavanagh whilst there, the court was told, accusing her of speaking to another man, which she denied. While this was going on, Cavanagh arranged to meet a female, who he knew well and would speak to often.

On May 17 and 18, nothing of real significance happened, although the defendant and Ms Cavanagh spoke on the phone on the evening of May 18 for nearly 50 minutes.

On May 19, Cavanagh and Ms Cavanagh went to Wingham Wildlife Park, in Kent, and The Chatterton Arms pub, in Bromley Common, while also meeting friends at the pub for dinner.

At 8.26pm Ms Cavanagh made a phone call to an unknown number - which was the last call she ever made, Ms Healy told the court. The jury were then told that Ms Cavanagh's phone was last "online" at 12.03am on May 20.

The jury were told that on May 20 a handful of people tried to contact the defendant through his phone, although these calls and text messages were never answered or replied to because his phone was in Ms Cavanagh's flat in Bromley, where she was found dead that same day.